Dominique Jarassé

Professor of Contemporary Art History at University Bordeaux 3, Dominique Jarassé has furthered research in various areas, from painting to African and Oceanic art, as well as landscape architecture.  His most pioneering work is still the book ‘Synagogues - Une architecture de l’identite juive’ (Synagogues: Jewish identity in architecture), in which he addresses Jewish architecture from historical, tourist, sociological and religious angles, based on the experiences of emblematic figures such as Georges Pérec, Modigliani, and Chagall, as well as Dreyfus.